Pensive Frog

Someone had a lot of fun planning the First Annual Stitch n’ Pitch at Safeco Field last night. Player names were displayed on the jumbo-tron in a cute needlepoint font, the first pitch was tossed by a knitter, and even the music trivia game was fiber-themed (answer: Dream Weaver by Gary Wright). Our [...]

If I haven’t mentioned it before, I am definitely the indoorsy type. I don’t like sports or exercise, which perhaps can be traced back to 5th grade, when I was awarded a C+ in PE. Straight A’s, and a C+. I pretty much refused to participate in soccer, which consisted of one [...]

I solved a problem today, which probably wasn’t bothering anyone else but me, but I’ll share the results anyway. A long time ago (like, last year!) I found a free pattern for a DNA scarf on the Intarweb. A few months ago, the link broke, and I couldn’t find the pattern anywhere! [...]

The more I knit, the more I learn. I had heard the term “Russian join” bandied about, but I never knew what it meant until today. Oh, sweet sweet Russian join.
In other news, do you want to see something funny? Do you want to see something weird? If you answered ‘yes’ [...]

Oy, I’ve been away for a while. I’ve been busy with visitors and celebratory things, which of course required a tasty New Orleans cake from Famous Northwest Catering. Gawd, it’s good.

I’ve never been to New Orleans, but if it’s anything like this cake (drenched in caramel, embraced by white chocolate, and resplendent with [...]

Oooh, oooh, summertime! Summertime means new, airy sweet nothing knitting projects, like the Flower Basket Shawl from the Fall 2004 IK, using Frog Tree fingering weight alpaca in a tasty persimmon orange. Here’s my first attempt:

Looks like something the cat hawked up. Round 2:

Huzzah! It seems to be working.

Huzzah huzzah! [...]

Now this is the ultimate in laziness.

Posting a WIP picture of a poncho I completed last year, rather than taking a photo of the poncho I’m knitting now. Well, it’s the same pattern, same yarn, same color, so really, there’s nothing new. I know ponchos are dreadfully passe, but sometimes a sweater seems [...]